This research is conducted by Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship on behalf of the Adviesraad voor Wetenschap, Technologie en Innovatie (AWTI). The AWTI was requested by the Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) to provide an answer to three concerns about knowledge-intensive startups.
The AWTI translated these into one main hypothesis and requested Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship to provide their input based on three research questions presented below. This first section introduces the context of the research, the approach employed and the structure of the research report.
The Advisory council for science, technology and innovation (AWTI) has commissioned this report as a background study for the AWTI advisory report ‘Beter van start. De sleutel tot doorgroei van kennisintensieve start-ups’. This background study has been carried out by the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship and was finished in March 2020. This publication and AWTIs advisory report were published in October 2020 and may be found at www.awti.nl.